The scent of chlorine and chlorine and excitement filled the air at the pool. Liam, stretched out on a lounge chair, was enjoying the sun. He'd just finished a successful swim meet. He loved the feeling of the water gliding over his skin. He heard someone call his name and turned to see his friend, waving a newspaper. "Have you seen this?!" his friend exclaimed. The article discussed a new swimming technique, claiming it was revolutionary, and the demonstration was identical to his own. Liam's spirits lifted.

Emotion: cheerful

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 4.13 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -1.19

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion cheerful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 cheerful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the cheerful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the cheerful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
la0.962
de0.597
!0.590
excitedly0.589
!".0.568
Suppressed:
S-1.213
L-0.693
ness-0.492
😞-0.425
বারবার-0.422